each with its own idiosyncratic creed; but generally they had four tenets in common: • Salvation could be a palpable, right-here/right-now experience. • Salvation could be achieved through faith alone. • No person needed an intermediary to connect with God. • People could get everything they needed to know about religion from the Bible; they didn’t need to know Latin or the conclusions of church councils or the pronouncements of priests and scholars.
